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Availability: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: Damien Chazelle Rating: 5/5 I finally watched La La Land. At first, I was saying to myself that the reason why this film received so many Oscars and Golden Globes is beyond me. But, as the film progressed I realised I was thinking this only because I am not really…
The next book I just finished from lovely “SaveTheCulture Initiative is Jane Smiley’s “Ordinary Love and Good Will”. I read edition from 1998 only entitled “Ordinary Love”. It is not a novel that has one story line, but a combination of two books in one, both with a similar theme: family and everyday life. You…
Riverdale is a new Netflix series, with 10 episodes broadcast by now. The new episode will be broadcast on 28th April (episode 11). At first, I thought it is a typical teenager series with one beautiful girl bullying everyone else due to her beauty and money. However, this series is much more than that, for…
Netflix has recently implemented a new system of programme matches, i.e. when you look at the programme in an attempt to decide what you want to watch it gives you a percentage that indicates whether that programme matches what you normally watch and like. I was sceptical about it at first, but it actually works…
Director: Charlie McDowell Rating: 2.5/5 Imagine if there was a scientific evidence that afterlife exists. What would you do? You would possibly face an ethical choice of considering to end your life and head towards a better one, or you would enjoy your time on Earth more knowing there is something out there for you.…
New series from Netflix provides a brilliant insight into a mind of a broken teenager and circumstances that brought to her suicide. As I have written in my previous blog (see here), “the series portrays a life of a high school girl Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) who committed a suicide. Hannah experienced some of the…
Release Date: 31 March 2017 Venue: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: Rupert Sanders Rating 4/5 This film is certainly not a waste of time for it has something for everyone, i.e. some good action, as well as some thoughtful comments on humanity. In the near future, humans are able to upgrade themselves with robotic features to…
13 Reasons Why is a new series on Netflix. It has 13 episodes and I just finished the fifth one (within the same day, as this is not a series one can easily let go). Needless to say, I will be doing a speedy watching of this series. As the series is quite powerful it…
Rating: 5/5 This film was recently added on Prime, and it is certainly worth watching. I have to say I haven’t seen a film addressing love in such an imaginative way for a long time. In other words, the film addresses love from philosophical, ethical and an emotional point of view. Therefore, we follow a…
Rating:4/5 This new comedy released a few days ago addresses poverty in the US in a way I have not seen yet. In that, the film combines a sad reality of two girls left to fend for themselves with humour and a happy end. The reason Deidra (Ashleigh Murray) and Laney (Rachel Crow) are left…
Released: March 2017 Venue: Vue Cinema Leeds Director: James Mangold Rating: 2.5/5 In season one (episode 21) of the mega popular US show Friends, fake Monica tells real Monica that when she watched the “Dead Poet Society” she said to herself that those two hours of her life were the ones she lost forever. While…
This film presents an exaggerated version of an event that has happened to many people, i.e. being robbed and the feeling of violation that burglary has caused. In this film, a depressed nursing assistant Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) debates how she felt when she discovered there was a burglary in her house, and that her grandmother’s…
Netflix has recently launched the Ultimate Beastmaster show with competitors from six countries. In the first round, competitors competed for becoming the beastmaster and then they will continue to the ultimate championship, i.e. 10 of them. Sylvester Stallone is one of the producers of the show heavily advertised to Netflix’s audiences around the globe. It…
Imagine a guy who is trying to blackmail you to have sex with him, and you eat him. Literally. First you bite two fingers off, and then continue until villain is gone. You must be asking yourself, what she’s on about in this blog. Well, I felt the same when I saw all first episode…
I noticed that many people ask what series to watch, and surprisingly some of them never heard of some of my favourite series. Some lists and blogs give advices on what to watch and my series are not there. It will be quite possible to argue that series I list do not encompass series listed…
iBoy is a Netflix’s film released in January 2017, and the film carries a typical Netflix’s signature of science fiction, i.e. one of the reasons I love Netflix so much. No other programme provides gives so much on science fiction and especially not in such a diverse way as Netflix. This film presents a story…
This film gives a beautiful insight into psychological issues people face after trauma, and as such could easily serve as an educational material. However, the film is more than that. It is also an unpredictable and surprising story, which will satisfy many film lovers. The story portrays a psychiatrist Dr Jane Mathis (Vinessa Shaw) who…
Coin Heist is a film that narrates a story of a group of teenagers who are trying to save their school by stealing from the U.S Mint. In that, they created a unique coin they are trying to secretly produce during the night to raise money for the school, so that they can still have…
I read the second book I received in #SaveTheCulture Initiative. This one was more interesting than the first one, I have to say. This was also the first time I got hooked up with a book I did not enjoy. In other words, this book is so dark that you hate it, but you can’t…
Yesterday I watched “Labyrinth of Lies”, a German movie originally released in 2014. The version with English subtitles was released by Amazon Prime in 2016. The film is a really interesting reflection on true events that happened in 1958 Germany, when the population was still refusing to face the past and the horror of WWII,…
Last week I purchased a film from the Sky Store, one of those not yet widely available. As I watched two other Purge movies, I took the third one. I expected lots of negativity and naturally I was not disappointed. However, the Purge also brought a positive side to the story and a positive representation…